A source tells CBSPhilly the township has received reports from residents regarding the mysterious vibration in the area.
Lower Township resident Jo Ann Armstrong says, "The kitchen moved. My husband was outside on the riding mower and I thought he had run into the house."
And she wasn't alone - several others turned to Twitter to share their experience:
Think we may have just had a minor earth quake in cape may countyIt seemed like the room moved. It's didn't shake, it didn't twitch or anything, it just actually seemed like it moved," Jo Ann Armstrong said.
2:05 PM - 29 Oct 2014
Felt an earthquake in Atlantic/Cape May counties.
4:00 PM - 29 Oct 2014 Pleasantville, NJ, United States
Earthquake felt in Cape May County New Jersey.
2:56 PM - 29 Oct 2014
Felt shaking and heard a rumble earlier this afternoon here in North Cape May. Anyone else? Possible earthquake?
4:24 PM - 29 Oct 2014
It was a shakeup Jo Ann Armstrong just couldn't figure out.
And she wasn't alone.
In cities up and down the shore, people reported feeling the ground move or hearing a loud boom.
"I felt like a big, almost like a vibration, and then I heard what sounded like a truck overturning or something," Jacquelyn Songalewski said.
It lasted just seconds but people jumped on social media hoping to figure it all out. Some didn't know what to think, others thought possibly it was even an earthquake.
There were no reports of any earthquakes in the area by the U.S. Geological Survey, and as it turns out the source of the mysterious boom may not be from the ground, but rather the air.
Aircraft test flights breaking the speed of sound over the Atlantic in an airspace referred to as the test track caused a similar scare back in February.
And it turns out the Navy was conducting similar tests Wednesday afternoon from the naval air station in Patuxent River, Maryland.
Armstrong was relieved her friends experienced that same thing. For a moment she thought she was alone.
"Bizarre. Very bizarre," she said.
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Comment: Below is a collection of strange booms and mysterious vibrations from the eastern shore of the US and the New Jersey area from Sott.net. These events are often blamed on unspecified military flights, as is the case with this recent event. The possibility exists that the military flight explanation is likely an excuse used for covering up unexplained phenomena happening in the earth or overhead meteor explosions.
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